remanded
Americanadjective
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sent back or consigned again, as for revision.
A remanded proposal that fails to achieve a 60% majority of votes when reconsidered shall be removed from further consideration.
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Law.
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relating to or being a case sent back to a lower court from which it was appealed.
We trust that the facts of the parties' relationship will become clearer during the remanded hearing.
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(of a prisoner or accused person) sent back into custody, as to await further proceedings.
A remanded person awaiting trial at the city’s central prison has complained of overcrowding and poor sanitation.
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He appeared in court in Omagh on Tuesday morning and was remanded in custody.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
The 18-year-old, charged with driving dangerously in Middlesbrough on Saturday, appeared at Teesside Magistrates' Court on Monday and was remanded in custody, police said.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
The 15-year-old was remanded in custody and is due to appear at the Old Bailey on 24 September, with the other pair due at Willesden Magistrates' Court on Monday.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
McGuinness and Dunn, both from Watford, Hertfordshire, were remanded in custody.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
He was led away to be locked in Martin’s museum—in what used to be the sacristy and was now the island’s makeshift jail cell—until he could be remanded to police on the mainland.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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